Title

Postcard from Prisoner at Majdanek Concentration Camp

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.318

Object Name

Postcard

Date

2-13-1944

Files

Description

Front: Split in half by a vertical purple line. Left side has the 'absender' address written in pencil. Below that is a purple stamp with several pencil markings written in it. The right side has 'Postkarte' printed on the top in purple, with a printed on stamp of a German town squarewith a statue in it, with a Nazi eagle in the lefthand corner of the stamp. There is a black, circular stamp over it. The address is written in faded pencil on dotted purple lines. Back: A note written in greenish pencil, somewhat faded. Written horizontally across the page. Date in upper righthand corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Censored postcard written by prisoner-"Schutzhaftlinge Nr. 2986"- in Majdanek concentration camp, postmarked in Lublin.

Dimensions

4 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Majdanek, Prisoner, Censor

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Prisoner at Majdanek Concentration Camp" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.318.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/576